Editing District of Duchy of Lauenburg (section)

=== ''District Administrator'' ===
From 1873–82 the Hereditary Land Marshal (''Erblandmarschall'') was responsible for administration of the district and the appointment of offices. The ''landrat'' (about in {{langx|en|county commissioner}}), as a Prussian official, dealt only with the national administration.

*1873–1874: ''Regierungsassessor'' [[Jungbluth]]
*1874–1881: [[Graf Andreas von Bernstorff]]

After 1 October 1882 the ''[[Landrat]]'' became responsible also for local administration, free from state control.

*1882–1897: [[Oskar von Dolega-Kozierowski]]
*1897–1900: [[Graf Finck von Finckenstein]]
*1900–1907: [[Friedrich von Bülow]]
*1907–1919: [[Emil Mathis]]
*1919–1927: [[Kurt Schönberg]]
*1927–1933: [[Gustav Voigt]]
*1933–1938: [[Theodor Fründt]], [[NSDAP]]
*1939–1945: [[Erich Jüttner]], [[NSDAP]]

A change in government came about after the [[Second World War]] with the 1946 county statute issued by the [[Control Commission for Germany–British Element|British military government]].  The ''Landrat'' now temporarily functioned as an honorary head of the district council (''Kreistag''), which now dealt with the administration of the district directly. Later, however, the ''Landrat'' took over the district administration again.

*1945–1946: [[Ewald Raaz]]
*1946–1948: [[Wilhelm Gülich]], [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]]
*1948–1950: [[Fritz Vagt]], [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|CDU]]
*1950–1969: [[Gerhard Wandschneider]]
*1969–1975: [[Klaus Prößdorf]]
*1975–2002: [[Günter Kröpelin]], [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|CDU]]
*2002–2015: [[Gerd Krämer]], [[Independent (politician)|independent]]
*2015–present: Dr. Christoph Mager, [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany|CDU]]